Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-10-30
A SECOND ENOCH ARDEN.
a Prominent Man Disappears, and After
Twenty Years Returns to Find His Wife
Married to Another Man.
Ohio Stata Journal.


| Ohio Stata Journal.
In 1856 Cloyce Wilson was one of the
most popular and best known politicians
in Hancock county, Ohio, and was elected
TO thes Office Of sheriff in that year, g
| place which ne filed for one term, and.
declining denomination, retired from
the office followed by the best wishes Of
his friends regardless of party. He was
man of family, had pleasant home
aud was possessed of some property, and
| his only falling WAS foDdness for the
seductive game Of "poker," vice which
ne cultivated with considerable assiduitv
Without word of warning one day in
December, 1869, Cloyce Wilson Gissp-
peared as suddenly and as mysteriously
as though the ground had opened and
| swallowed him up and closed again, lesv.
ing no sign by which his fate could be as
certained. His wife and friends set on
foot Investigations and q seach WAS irsti-
tuted, but nothing concerning his where-
sbouts was ever ascerteineG and his de-
serted wife and children united with his
fellow-citizens in the conclusion that he
hsd been murdered for sum OF money
he was known to possess.
Time passed on, and FindlGy people,
who at that period occasionally wandered
beyond the confines OF Hancock county,
came back with stories that CIoyce VIII
son had been killed in 6 card-room st
Springfield; others saw him in the wild
west, and some pretended to have INST
him in the eunny southland, but not
much credence was given these rumors by
his deserted wife who firmly believe him
dead.
In June, 1876, Mrs. Wilson was startled
by receiving letter from her husband
she had married again in the interim
saying he would be home on q certain
Saturday night, bat If he failed to come
at thst time not 10 be uneasy about him
as he would be home q few DAYS later.
The letter contained nothing further,
Wilson saying nothing Of why he had
gone sWGY SO unceremoniously end max
ing no excuse for his conduct. The feel
ings OF the poor woman, with a second
edition Of "Enoch Arden" on her hands.
can be imagined but not described.
Fortunately for al concerned Wilson
cid not put IN an appearance on the date
he WSs billed for, and nothing more was
heard OF him. Mrs. Wilson, now Mrs.
Hyatt, removed to Cleveland, and her
wv SLOWA W ia
married well and set up establishments
of their own, with only hazy recollections
of their father.
Interest in the whole affair died out,
and with the removal of Wilson's former
wife to Cleveland, ill the actors in the
drama were forgotten until yesterday,
when Jay Markle, well known merchant
of this city, met O gentleman who ap-
xrik 6a. -
concerning Findlay and the people who
were prominent here along IN the
"sixties,n and ended by asking for in
formation regarding Cloyce Wilson, and
what had become of his family, particu-
sWered all the strangers inquiries and
then turned interviewer himself, and was
not long in discovering that he WAS face
to face with Cloyce Wilson, fact the
gentleman acknowledged when pressed |
with such an inquiry. BE would not say
anything of himself why he had gone
away or anything of how he had passed |
the nearly score of years since he shook |
was well dressed and wore nearly white /
Burnside whiskers, a style he affected !
when Sheriff of this county.
Having satisfied himself as to the mat
ter in which he seemed so deeply inter
ested the former sheriff took the first |
train and left town as mysteriously IS
when he hsd babe the city good-by in |
December, 1869. Whether ne went to
Cleveland to see his former wife snd
children or returned to the unknown
world in which he has been hidden this
5eponent saith not, but taking into cons
\ 4A< n
social or business reason impelled him TO
Ske the step he did, snd his return to his
I'D haunss after the lapse of these many
Iesrs, the case is certainly one OF the
Eueerest In this queer world of ours.